Re: PPRC Cestpair problem

2012-05-30 Thread Zaromil Tisler
(PRIMARY) (SECONDARY) * SSID CCA LSS SSID CCA LSS* DEVICE LEVEL STATE PATH STATUS SERIAL# SERIAL#* -- - -- --- -- * 1321 .

Re: Comparing datasets

2012-05-29 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Wow! Thank you for this recipe and information about JOINKEYS. I had to play a bit with REFORMAT to understand it and get what I need. Before you post this, I have already found SPLICE example 8 in the same publication and was also able to get the results I wanted. I would never come to

Comparing datasets

2012-05-24 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Is there z/OS (ISPF) tool that can check if all lines of dataset A are contained in dataset B? In other words, is there a tool that could check if dataset A is a subset of dataset B, where A and B are sets of records (lines)? I can accomplish it using COMPARE ISPF edit function or SuperC

Re: Discussion groups devoted to Mainframe(zos) automation tools

2012-05-10 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Are there discussion groups similar to IBM-MAIN that are devoted to Mainframe automation tools? For Tivoli System Automation for z/OS and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms you will find links on the last page in the System Automation for z/OS: 101

Re: Secret Service Guide

2012-03-16 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Service Guide, IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (GC28-6866-05) http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=pub1gc28686605 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Checking CRITICALPAGING status for an AS

2011-09-29 Thread Zaromil Tisler
SYS1.MODGEN(IARRAX) Thank you! I see I haven't done my homework properly. I've searched ibm-main archives and internet, but failed to look in the SYS1 datasets. Have a nice day! -- Zaromil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Checking CRITICALPAGING status for an AS

2011-09-28 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Is there any possibility to check if CRITICALPAGING is enabled for an address space? (z/OS V1R12) The function is enabled in the COUPLExx member. -- Zaromil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: CFRM Structure Names

2010-07-29 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:31:08 -0400, Richards, Robert B. wrote: Thanks for the pointers. So far, my best source is the reason I am documenting them now: the paper called System-Managed CF Structure Duplexing. I am in the process of identifying what should/should not be duplexed and thought I would

Re: how to identify members that DO NOT contain a string

2010-07-22 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:27:28 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: To explain this trick a little more: putting your cursor on a column header and pressing Enter sort the list on that item. This again is a short form of the sort prompt (or any other column) command. And sort prompt is short form of

Re: Rebuild Pending Duplexed Structures

2010-07-14 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:39:23 -0500, Casey Rhodes wrote: ... Today we activated a new CFRM policy that caused some of our duplexed structures to go pending. The only way I could find to resolve this is the reallocate. I know maybe I am being picky but dont really like to do the reallocate and

Re: PROG695 (Was Re: PROG750)

2010-06-01 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 02:56:38 -0700, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR wrote: Anyone know where I can lookup info about this 3270 error code, prog695? The tn3270 client vendor does not supply any info about it nor has any Google or IBMLink search turned up anything.   If it is the same code and meaning as in

Re: Calculating the pipe size for DASD mirroring

2010-05-27 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:01:51 -0500, Brian Peterson wrote: We replicate all JES2 data sets (spool, checkpoint, etc) to our remote site, and we have NEVER failed to warm start JES2 using our asynchronous DASD replication solution - a solution which also guarantees consistency. If the DASD

Re: Quick Sort question

2010-05-26 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 25 May 2010 14:05:08 -0500, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John H Kington snippage Visualize it with these parameters: INCLUDE COND=(1,6,CH,GE,C'SMITH ',AND,1,6,CH,LE,C'SMYTHE') Show how, e.g., c'SMILEY' in

Re: COUPLE DATA SET TIME STAMPS

2010-04-20 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:14:09 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: You may run into problems with the LOGR CDS. Check out II5 if that applies to you. IIRC, the problem was going forward in time for LOGR. Where can I find II5? Technical help database answer I get is: No documents match your query.

Re: SYSPLEX/CFRM Couple dataset(s) relationship

2010-04-13 Thread Zaromil Tisler
We have done quite a lot of DR testing in the last year and a half. We defined all coupling facilities in our active CFRM policy, the same way Alan C. Field described, and never had a problem IPLing our sysplex. The only difference is that we start JES2 with RECONFIG parameter, to set the CKPT1

Coupling Facility Time and TD103077

2010-03-31 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Last weekend we had daylight saving time change, going from CET to CEST (i.e. our time zone was CET -- UTC+1, now CEST -- UTC+2). We are STP-only CTN, total of 3 z10, CTS = PTS = CEC dedicated to coupling facilities Coupling Facilities are spread over all three CECs. As I read Coupling Facility

Re: DFSORT - Avoid reading entire input file?

2009-12-31 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:22:16 -0500, Gerry Palmer gpal...@mindspring.com wrote: Is there any way to convince DFSORT not to bother reading the rest of the input once the ENDREC value has been exceeded? Did you look at STOPAFT: Use STOPAFT to specify the maximum number of records to be accepted

Re: HYPERPAV

2009-12-07 Thread Zaromil Tisler
- DS8000: Architecture and Implementation redbook states that If many LSSs are involved, then pick a quiet time to perform the SETIOS HYPERPAV=YES command ...Because it can take some time to initialize all needed LSSs ... Is there a way to get an estimation on time needed per LCU ?

Re: Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-23 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:43:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Skeptic that I am, I'd be very interested in seeing the header line that you trimmed, akin to the one I posted: SDSF EDITHFSMAC (JOB00503) JCLEDIT Columns 1 00072 ** * Top of

Re: No NIP console with 2074

2009-09-25 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:40:13 -0500, Glen Gasior wrote: * Has anyone experienced no NIP console and no MASTER console with an IBM 2074 ? * During a D/R exercise the NIP console failed to appear on the PCOM emulator. It was available at the HMC software console. The IPL proceeded using the HMC

Re: HCD definitions for a CISCO Ficon switch

2009-08-17 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Does anyone have any experience in defining a Cascaded CISCO Ficon switch in HCD? I believe that we need to know both the Domain ID of the Switch and the Switch Address, but we are unable to determine what the Switch address is? Documentation on the Internet (an IBM redbook!) states that Switch

osa-icc big screen response times

2009-07-01 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Hello! Playing with the dynamic screen size(s) and customizing my PCOMM sessions I tried to establish a connection to OSA-ICC and open an MVS console session as model 5 (ScreenSize=27x132). It worked without problems and it was my understanding that the screen size defined in the PCOMM

Re: HYPERPAV Definitions

2009-06-19 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:16:47 -0500, Dave Kopischke dgkopisc...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:02:12 -0400, Swanson, Curt wrote: Dave, The 'WLMPAV' value of 'Yes' is correct for both Dynamic PAV HYPERPAV. The setup is the same for both; the only difference is the HYPERPAV

Re: Would an IODF configuration work for diferent devices ?

2009-06-03 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:27:11 -0500, Cwi Jeret cwi_je...@yahoo.com wrote: Given the following working configuration - snipped Now I want to let LPAR B work with the same IODF-IOCDS configuration on an seperate Disk device with the same addresses ! ( Chpid and CU 300 CUAD 1 - left as is ) like

Re: Utility to search multiple files on multiple volumes

2009-05-05 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Hi Gadi, That works if you know the file name. How do I ask: Find all the members in all the PDS's on disks who name begins with TSO and contain the string GABI (That is what my user wants to know). just use the empty Dsname Level field and generic Volume serial like TSO* or TSO% etc. It works

Re: configuration change question

2009-01-19 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:02:19 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: If you perform a soft activate only, everything will be fine until you IPL again. Then, because you didn't do a hardware activate too, you will get the old IODF, from before you changed the esoterics. That's because the soft activate

Re: 3278 device Hardware support

2009-01-16 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Does Z/OS 1.8 and above still support the 3278 device type and is only the hardware support for the real physical 3278's dropped? Any idea where i can find thios on the IBM site? To check the support for 3278 device type I would look in HCD --- 7. Query supported hardware and installed

Re: NIP console devices limit

2009-01-13 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Hi Radoslaw, From the other hand - what about MCS consoles? Two concurrently running systems (LPARs) cannot use same device as console. Assuming monoplexes. We also have OSA-ICC and all our LPAR use the same two device numbers for MCS consoles. But, these are NOT same devices: MIFID - Device

Re: How to calculate size of a PS dataset

2008-12-23 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:07:44 -0600, Parin Gangar wrote: The dataset has following details - Device type . . . . :,3390 Record format . . . :,FB Record length . . . :,1526 Block size . . . . :,7630 1st extent tracks . :,15000 Secondary tracks . :,1500 Current Allocation, ,Allocated tracks .

Re: ISPF Edit confusion

2008-11-19 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:54:42 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: Mark, snip ... I did look at his PDSPROF and found this L WKLW.ZVWARN2 but I have no idea what that means or if it's truely related. /snip What application creates PDSPROF? Is it a member in ISPF profile (I don't have one with that

Re: INITSQA CBU processing

2008-11-04 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:12:06 +0800, Tommy Tsui wrote: After I try to activiate the CBU from 2094-401 to 2094-707, the LPAR cannot be IPL successfully because of 878 until I set the INITSQA. Is there any overhead while CBU activiated? How comes we need to add the default SQA/ESQA to NIP

Change LPAR Security task doesn't reflect profiles' content

2008-11-04 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Hi! We use the Change LPAR Security task (under CPC Operational Customization in a Single Object Operation) to display and modify security controls for all LPARs on a single CPC. We encountered the following problem: if we take away Input/Output Configuration Control from some LPARs and then

Re: Dynamic PAV - which alias will be moved

2008-10-08 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Hi Kevin, Are your spare volumes defined with WLMPAV=YES in your I/O config? Or, is it possible to disable dynamic alias management for certain volumes directly in the STK box? -- Zaromil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: HYPERPAV

2008-09-24 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:34:05 +0200, John Ticic IBM-MAIN wrote: You can also use the SETIOS command. Once the LCUs have been converted, the other LPARs can't move the aliases around. The IBM documentation states that they are ignored. RMF will show you the LCU and HyperPAV activity. The MVS

Re: Query DCB parms from FTP

2008-09-09 Thread Zaromil Tisler
How can I query the DCB parms (RECFM , LRECL ) for an existing file via FTP ? You mean something like dir? ftp dir cntl 200 Port request OK. 125 List started OK Volume UnitReferred Ext Used Recfm Lrecl BlkSz Dsorg Dsname CTST21 3390 2008/08/25 1 15 FB 80 3120 PO CNTL 250 List

Re: Duplicate dev num in IODF

2008-09-08 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Radoslaw, snip 3. Fake definition of devices. Devices 400-4F0 connected to CU 400 (OSE). CU 400 is logically connected to chpid 10 on CPC A and 10 on CPC B. This is obviously fake, but it is accepted by HCD. However: will it work? In our shop all lpars in all CECs use the same device addresses

Re: PPRC and page datasets

2008-05-07 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Wed, 7 May 2008 12:55:47 +0200, Frank Allan Rasmussen wrote: Are there any rectrictions or recommendations about PPRC (metro mirror) and volumes with page datasets? Good ide, bad ide, some performance impact, recomented? It should be a prerequisite for a GDPS HyperSwap. For the HyperSwap

Re: PCOM and trailing blanks in copy paste

2008-04-29 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Thank you for all your answers and hints! 1. Trimming the trailing blanks: Unfortunately I do not have any RegEx-capable program at work and UltraEdit is not in our software catalog. Anyhow, I've got the following Information offline: - snip - Hi, i normally use Notepad++ (free

Re: ipsf HIGHLIGHT option

2008-04-25 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:31:59 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Interesting. I also use 62x142 with a modified color scheme. My background is light gray -- I found white a bit too harsh. Never thought to turn on the cross hairs. (I might try that for a while to see how I like it.) I find light beige

PCOM and trailing blanks in copy paste

2008-04-25 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Does any user of IBM PCOM know a way to change the cut and paste behaviour so that trailing blanks are (automatically) stripped off? I have found no parameter to do that. So, if I want to paste something from the screen into a mail, the easiest way I found is to copy the data into a variable

Re: FICON CTC

2008-03-07 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:54:36 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: From z/OS 1.9 MVS:Planning Global Resource Serialization. These links can be either a data link in a parallel CTC adapter. In ring mode, link or CTC link means either an IBM 3088 data link, a parallel CTC adapter, or an ESCON(R) channel

Re: Rexx - TRAP errors / Exception handling ?

2008-03-04 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:29:43 -0500, Arthur T. wrote: - snip - This may not be the best way to validate. Check out the results of the following, which is a very slightly modified version of my previous example. At least on my PC with Regina REXX, it gives unexpected results.

Re: page data sets and HiperPAV (was: Large Page Datasets APAR OA20749)

2008-03-04 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:31:01 +0100, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: - snip - Yes, as I understood too, it is fully managed by the hardware, not by WLM. So this means that ASM may have to compete for exposures. Possibly/hopefully ASM's I/O priority will give it the needed advantage. Otherwise

Re: page data sets and HiperPAV

2008-03-04 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:34:03 +0100, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good catch! I don't suppose oa20749 will correct this oversight, too? My understanding was that it should be enough to define devices with WLMPAV yes in the HCD. We have this but I don't know how to check if it helps.

HyperPAV paging devices and ASM

2008-02-21 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Do ASM algorithms support two I/Os to a page data set on a HyperPAV base volume? If yes, are the aliases fixed, as in the case of dynamic PAV? -- Zaromil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: IEBGENER is BROKEN

2008-01-15 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:17:15 -0600, Walt Farrell ... wrote: snip If I have a VB (or even an FB) with a larger LRECL, it shouldn't take handstands to copy! For VB, I agree. For FB, how would you like the output padded? Blanks? Binary zeros? One of those will be incorrect for some

Re: File Transfer conundrum

2008-01-10 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:13:13 -0600, Bruce Baxter ... wrote: ftp directly between the two systems, quite simply isn't an option. Our business partner chose the mechanism in palce to deal with multiple other shops, and they're not likely to want to do this sort of one-off thing for us. And how

Re: FTPing of DFDSS Dump Files

2007-12-06 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Does anyone know of a way to FTP the DUMP file back to a zOS system so it is readable? Using Windows as a client and z/OS as a server the following works for me for tersed datasets (binary ftping in both directions): ftp quote site lrecl=1024 recfm=fb blksize=6144 200 SITE command was

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-07 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:42:54 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: snip Finally, there is the fact that software engineers -- or at least human factors engineers -- apparently never reviewed ASCII. As we all know, EBCDIC puts the letters in the correct numerical order, collating uppercase and

Re: VARY too many devices offline

2007-10-23 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:54:31 +0100, Kenny Fogarty wrote: I agree, but, if the wrong date, or IPL parm, or whatever is entered, then the chances are you're going to have to re-IPL to rectify the situation. As you said above, if RACF doesn't start, you can go back to see why, and take steps to fix

Re: XCF Recovery Process IXC247D

2007-10-01 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:58:42 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just was wondering what might have happened in a SINGLE Sysplex environment (ie no other sysplexes other than mine) if the response of U was done. I would say IXC247D comes every time you try to use a CDS that

CentricStor

2007-09-26 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Hello! Anyone on this list having experience with CentricStor? It would be very interesting to hear (see) a comparison between CentricStor and IBM VTS based on experience with both of them. Thank you! -- Zaromil -- For

Re: Override a proc step

2007-08-13 Thread Zaromil Tisler
Gil, COND=(0,LE) is always true, so any step with COND=(0,LE) will always be skipped. COND codes can only be positive, so zero is always LE any possible COND code. Not entirely correct, IIRC. If the step is the first step in the job it will not be skipped. This is mathematically correct

Re: Defining a display LU so the user can choose the terminal type

2006-10-20 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:55:25 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: snip o Dark figures on a white ground. As an experiment... I tried this. I changed my background on my vista emulator to white just like all my email, browser windows etc. but still used extended colors for the foreground (except changing